ACC Board
The ACC Board is responsible for providing strategic direction to the ACC and approving the use of the ACC’s special coercive powers.
Under the ACC Act the ACC Board has the following functions:
- to determine national criminal intelligence priorities
- to provide strategic direction to the ACC and to determine the priorities of the ACC
- to authorise, in writing, the ACC to undertake intelligence operations or to investigate matters relating to federally relevant criminal activity
- to determine, in writing, whether such an operation is a special operation or whether such an investigation is a special investigation
- to determine, in writing, the class or classes of persons to participate in such an operation or investigation
- to establish task forces
- to disseminate to law enforcement agencies or foreign law enforcement agencies, or to any other agency or body of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory prescribed by the regulations, strategic criminal intelligence assessments provided to the Board by the ACC
- to report to the Inter-Governmental Committee on the ACC’s performance
- such other functions as are conferred on the Board by other provisions of the ACC Act.
The Board is comprised of the following members:
- Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police as Chair
- Secretary of the Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department
- Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service
- Chairperson of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission
- Director-General of Security, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
- Commissioner of the Australian Tax Office
- Commissioner, New South Wales Police Force
- Chief Commissioner, Victoria Police
- Commissioner, Queensland Police Service
- Commissioner, South Australia Police
- Commissioner, Western Australia Police
- Commissioner, Tasmania Police
- Commissioner, Northern Territory Police
- Chief Police Officer of the Australian Capital Territory
- Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Crime Commission (as a non-voting member).
